The Tumultuous Timeline of Twitter
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14:21 The employee’s name is Haraldur Ingi Þorleifsson and I encourage everyone to look him up because his being disabled is actually one of the least interesting reasons why firing him was a bad idea. The man was on the “do not fire” list and his employment at twitter was part of a special deal he made with them when they bought out his tech company
Right. If Musk didn't want him working there it would be cheaper to just continue paying him, but stop giving him anything to do, but no, he had to go fire him, because Musk has no idea what he's doing.
Basically he sold his own company to Twitter for several million dollars which he took as a salary instead of a lump sum of cash because he would pay more in taxes that way and he wants to make his country better for everyone. However he is still owed that money so if his employment is ever terminated he is still contractually owed that full amount which is to be given as a severance package. Firing him to save money won't accomplish that goal and the only reason he was fired was because Elon just fired as many people as possible without doing any research.
"He loves the letter X more than his children." I mean yeah he treated his daughter so poorly that she disowned him and willingly left from his will.
Musk has 11 kids and is only ever seen with the one with X in the name.
@@bitotaru 😐
Honestly, good for her lol
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Elongated Muskrat's obsession with the letter X is the perfect synecdoche of how incompetent he is as a human being. He thinks he's so cool, unique, and edgy, while sticking with a dumb fad that died in the late 2000s.
Ahh the 2000s, an interesting time to be a teen.
Sorry, but. Elongated Muskrat, is really funny
Kappa has arrived to tell us about the bird turning into a letter
Elon Musk's obsession with the letter X reminds me of when a kid learns a new word and shoehorns it into any sentence they form
@@tristysstuff6664Waaay too true, the man has had an obsession with it since PayPal's humble beginnings and possibly prior to that.
All he's doing at this point is proving the people at PayPal who knocked his suggestion back right, especially since "X" has never run worse.
That's not even accounting for the obvious ties to the internet the letter "X" has as pointed out by many.. Musk was so genuinely blinded by rage after the PayPal fiasco that he didn't take the time to do basic research before the brand change..
I may hate Musk with a passion that burns hotter than 1000 suns, but in the end it's just sad with how obsessed he is over this, really.
@@tristysstuff6664"legit" "lowkey" "hella"
I shoehorned your mom last night
birds used to turn in letters, now they turn into letters... what a world we've come to as a humanity
In general, layoffs follow mergers because you generally have twice as much staff as you need when you merge two companies. Having two entire accounting departments, when you have one company, doesnt make much sense. And when you make them one department, you're usually left with too many people and not enough jobs. So that usually results in layoffs. But he didn't merge a company with another one, he just took one over and then decided that half needed to go without first knowing anything about it. So he's just a giant idiot.
... Lol wow
Well apparently all the Twitter staff were evil communists in league with the CIA or something so he just had to fire most of them
He probably actually laid off workers because to investors/venture capitalists, it makes the company more valuable. It was his desperate bid to make as much money as quickly as possible.
Also all of his plans for Twitter include growing it, not just managing Twitter as it is. He says he wants it to be an everything app on the same level as WeChat in China. This would require even more staff than Twitter had. Right now the skeleton crew of H1-visa hostages can barely keep the regular functions operating day to day.
@zjuraeventide8949 Great job that did. Made him look lackey and scared off advertisers.
My absolute favorite thing about the twitter fiasco is that it proves Musk is unquestionably a bad businessman, and all his wealth comes from luck and nepotism.
Musk literally got rich by being of the members of the 'paypal mafia' as they're called, and by inheriting an emerald mine in South Africa. aside from that, every venture he's been a part of has been either a disaster or profitably only through vibes.
I sure love how meritocratic our system is!!!
you are objectively correct and i'm not going to pretend you aren't even for a joke. my serious face has never been more on.
and those lovely, lovely emerald mines and government subsidies. :D
Considering it’s from an emerald mine in Africa owned by a white family during apartheid I would say not so much luck but a willingness to profiteer off human suffering and exploiting the natural resources of their homeland
What I find really funny, is that when he was still in the process of buying Twitter, it was super obvious at one point he realised he was about to make a huge mistake. But by never shutting up on social media, he actively hampered his own chances of pulling back from the deal, cuz the other side was able to additionally argue that he has a history of manipulating markets through his social media posts.
He's like a teenager that treats the internet as equal to reality.
Fun fact. He's trying to sue the lawyers of the ex-Twitter CEO because he's pissed off he got forced to pay the deal (his official reason is something else but his case is so poor it's pretty clear he pulled this out of his ass cuz he was bitter).
funnier still is his fans are always flip flopping on which narrative to go with
and its always portrayed as another part of a grand 100000 IQ plan instead of what it really is.
a dumbass making billion dollar decisions for internet clout
@@ArturGlass.C it's actually way funnier than that, the original owners of Twitter agreed to pay the lawyers to force Elon to buy and once he actually bought it the company itself was on the hook for the legal fees so Elon had to be the one to pay the lawyers that forced him to buy. Elons attempts to get out of it completely failed because the court found that the lawyers did a great job.
@@fugyfruitI thought it was because he was too far onto the deal to back out legally.
@@JustWowNick the lawyers were the ones that proved that in court, they proved it so well in fact that Elon could not argue that they were overpaid
if you ever have a bad day, just remember it'll never be as bad as egomaniac elon going on stage at a chapelle show, a venue he thought would be a safe space full of adoring sycophants, and getting ruthlessly boo'ed. You know that moment haunts him when he closes his eyes at night. You know he remembers a snapshot of those jeering faces. And that helps me to sleep just a little better at night
Thank you for reminding me, I will have a skip in my step all day now
I may be no paragon of self-esteem, but I can rest easy knowing I will never, EVER be as desperate for attention as Elon Musk.
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"Not a day over sixty and with the eyes of a cornered ferret" is now my Tinder bio, thank you Kappa Kaiju
Would swipe right
Elon Musk is like the spoiled rich kid who saw everyone playing their favourite toy, only to buy it off from them and proceed to ruin it for everyone
He IS that kid if you read his history,
Something more about Elon's X obsession is it isn't constrained to _just one_ of his children's names, though admittedly that kid is the only one seemingly named after a jet plane. Of his 11 children 4 have names including the letter X, which is a rather high proportion because X isn't all that common a letter, but is only really noteworthy given how much he seems to fixate on the letter X everywhere else. In addition to this, one of his children who came out as trans also had a name beginning with X before their changed it, bringing that count up to 5/11 kids he intended to have an X in the name.
he has ELEVEN CHILDREN?????
@@crowskinnedI bet its a thing where he thinks he's creating "genetically superior" children cuz they came out of his wrinkly old nads
...and counting. (We only found out about the newest one, Techno Machinus, from a recent Elon biography) 6 are from his first marriage, 3 with Grimes, and 2 with one of his employees (ew).
something tells me the name change was the part of their transition he felt most affronted by. Removing some of his ownership over his child.
@@crowskinned he's been recorded talking about how he (and other wealthy people like him) have an obligation to populate the world with ""smart"" genes because the poor stupid people are having too many kids. It'd be funny if it weren't so vile
14:26 aside from being disabled, Halli also sold his company to Twitter not as a lump sum buyout but as Halli's yearly salary (Halli arranged it that way so he could pay higher taxes in Iceland to benefit public services), meaning were he fired, not only could he sue for disability but Twitter would have to pay him 10s of millions out of pocket that second or risk breach of contract.
Dude let's be real with how much they pay an artist per stream Spotify IS A SCAM. Especially now that they're talking about just not paying "less popular" artists in 2024. I hate this cursed planet
And Spotify still loses money anyways
It's insane how short this video is. The granularity of the whole situation could fuel an entire documentary series.
True. I want a video that's 17 hours long and makes fun of every little awful decision Musk made. That would help fill the void in my soul.
You could make a whole multi-hour video solely about how post-Elon Twitter is rampant with hate speech that is occasionally spurred on by Twitter (more specifically, Elon) itself. A recent example is that people have discounts that saying "I hate cis people" triggers a hate speech warning, while "I hate trans people" somehow doesn't, which may or may not have to do with Elon's insistence that the word "cisgender" is a slur
@@plebmcpleb5761 For sure, but some events not covered here I'd argue are pretty important. Such as the time one of the really really shitty guys he likes posted infant torture porn directly onto Twitter, and was publicly and personally unbanned by Musk himself. Or Musk attempting to ban all mention of other social medias (anti-competitive, thus illegal), the ungodly bright X he had put on the roof of a building in an earthquake-prone zone, or trying to sue the lawyers that had already lawfully sued him into purchasing Twitter. Among dozens of other small tidbits on a rapidly growing list.
Elon Musk is a great man. Not a good man but great as in his impact on society. There will be entire books dedicated to all the things he's destroyed.
@@OsirisLord Weird way to phrase it, but I understand
I recently tried to buy a model off of gumroad while on mobile, there was a bar in my way with a giant X on the right as I scrolled through the artist's aviable models, so I clicked it thinking it would close it.
It opened the artist's twitter page. I swear logo changes are mostly just dumb and feel like a poor attempt at money laundering, but holy shit the X has to be the worst one ever, even Patreon's new liver shaped logo makes more sense
that patreon logo at least makes sense when they show it in its actual intended design which is a 3d bubble logo. which they simplify to the shadow of that logo and flatten to one color. so okay patreon. but yeah it at least does have some logic to it
I think with the patreon logo they should have put a circle in there so it would look more like a P and also a pallette for painting
I like how it looks like a porn site logo, so if you have a lot of tabs open and need someone to look at your screen for whatever reason, they get to see those X tabs and wonder what the hell you're watching lmao
@@Colddirector “im just watching a funny x-video”
I want someone to be dedicated to me as much as Musk is to the 24th letter of the English alphabet
Elon and the letter X’s love story is honestly kind of beautiful. A Greek tragedy of man constantly chasing something he’ll never truly have. Love is a cruel mistress :(
"And they reminded him that, while X marks the spot, X can be the one object that prevents you from reaching your desires, the one object that takes them all away... but he did not listen to them."
he truly is the modern day Narcissus
What are you talking about. elon has tons of exes, its partially why he bought twitter in the first place lmao
My favourite part of the whole debacle is how it shows that Elon Musk is bad at illegally manipulating the stock market.
Prior to his offer to buy Twitter, he'd bought more than 5% of Twitter's stock without disclosing it within 10 days as is law, and that allowed him to buy the stock at an artificially low price. Somehow, he thought the SEC wouldn't notice despite them warning him (at the very least) for similar shit in the past.
And that basically forced him to buy it because the SEC would fine him if he didn't, and that fine was higher than what he thought Twitter's worth was. So he offered to buy Twitter for way too much money and they agreed, and their deal included a fine of $1billion if one party backed out.
Which was not ideal for Elon considering he'd realised how much less money Twitter was worth, and wanted to back out of the deal, or at the very least, renegotiate. And that's how we got to Elon publicly saying he was backing out because then Twitter's stock price would fall. And it did, but again, this is illegal, and Twitter sued him because of it.
This led to him having to buy a site he didn't want for too much money after directly making it worth even less. A great business man.
The good thing about having no sense of time is that I never realise how long people take between uploads until they're on my screen apologising about it.
Hali actually owned a company and instead of just receiving money for the company he thought to work for twitter. But there was a condition in the contract that if he was let go then then twitter would have to pay him an extremely large sum.
Also the disability suing. But that would be smaller in the amount.
I’m confident there was a note somewhere saying “under no circumstances fire this person” in big bold letters in a larger font than the rest of the text and Elon just ignored it figuring he knew better.
this entire scenario is absolutely hilarious as someone whos been here for the entire thing, twitter wasnt in the best state before the buyout but ya know. it functioned. now the site actively breaks, its filled with bots and and features everybody cant even use without losing your credibility for, not even mentioning the value of twitter has absolutely tanked because of this and elon has literally lost money because of it.
basically one huge Lmao
You're not wrong there, sure it wasn't perfect but at least prior to Musk's acquisition of the company I wouldn't be visibly watching the site crumble and crash in 4k real time.
At this point it feels like every second day of the week the site starts having loading issues or is undergoing random unwarranted API changes.
before musk when people talked about twitter being shit they were talking about the posts and the people, now when they do they're talking about how the site/app is just objectively broken. i went back to tumblr recently (wanted to look at fanart) and realized kid me who used to joke about it being the hellsite actually had it easy when compared to what's happening on twitter. at least now musk has given us a benchmark for what bad socmed looks like.
@@mysideacc2770 crabs.
@@mysideacc2770Tumblr was the hellsite because of its people, Twitter is the hellsite because of its owner
I sure do love when I get “Posts are not loading, please try again” every 5 minutes on the app nowadays. Like thanks Elon, you’ve ruined even the functionality of the app.
Kaiju is like this eldritch entity who appears once every blue moon. I love him.
just like a real kaiju!!! :D
The green silhouette effect that follows your movements keeps looking like someone is trying to hide from the camera and kiss you sensually on the back of the neck.
I can't unsee it my life is ruined
The disabled employee also had a contract where he couldn't be fired! This is because he had a company that twitter bought, and was employed because the contract for said purchase had that as the main form of payment. Firing him per the contract opens twitter (now x but elon reversed the tos about misgendering and deadnaming because hes a bigot so he literally has no stance to have this change respected) up to being sued for money that twitter doesnt have.
I haven't looked into any updates on this situation in particular. I do however hope it ends up bankrupting elon in the long run. The other option is that halli is rehired.
the yearly upload finally!
I'm surprised you didn't mention how use of the N word skyrocketed by some ridiculous number like 500% on Twitter right after Musk announced the purchase was finalised.
To me that illustrates everything you need to know about Musk and his fanboys
Now with his recent anti-semitism almost all advertisers have pulled their ads off of X. WB, Comcast, Disney, almost all big name advertisers are gone.
I wanna see the timeline where Elmo kills the block feature and immediately gets inundated by replies from people who absolutely did not want to see him but are nonetheless now subject to his bullshit, and will not hesitate to tell him to go sit on a rusty fence.
I mean, what's he gonna do? Block them?
@@GardenVarietea enable the block feature for paid accounts only.
You know you dont have to read the screen right?
@@alastor8091 yeah, that’s what the block button is for
@@Fluffkitscripts yeah, but even if there was no block button, you don't have to read the screen. Like, in sure I could block you, but if I don't wanna read anymore crybaby messages about the Big Bad Muskrat, I'll just stop reading them.
Who let Kappa out of cryosleep
You know what else was a complete scam, Kappa?
That's right. The Juicero! We all needed a wi-fi equipped juice packet smasher.
Was just wondering yesterday when Kappa Kaiju would reappear on my feed, and here he is. Is that manifestation?
I watched one of his old videos a few days ago and today I open TH-cam and see this video uploaded 7 minutes before me opening the app. coincidence? I think not
✨ group manifestation ✨
dude yeah, earlier today i was going all "damn, that kappa kaiju dude sure overedits his content and adds those little sound effects to text i like. i wonder if he'll release anything else soon"
Bro don’t say that about intelligence, dogs have done much smarter things then Elon has ever done
Considering over the past couple of days, advertisers have been fleeing Twitter in droves because they don't want their brands associated with Nazis, this video's timing could not have been better.
Elon is the greatest living example that having money doesn't mean being smart or deserving to be in charge of anything. He is the walking condemnation of capitalism as a system
Elon's tenure at Twitter is a textbook example of what happens when you get rid of everyone who will tell you "no, this is stupid".
3:17 i was just about to think "THATS where the saying comes from-?" Only to to start laughing. Your delivery is so good.
My favourite part about twitter is that no one calls it X.
Nothing more heartbreaking than finding the House of Sunny cardigan you're wearing costing over £90 on depop.
The Return of the King
I missed you Pappa Kaiju
13:53 he looks, and i cannot stress this enough, like the leader of a pokemon villain team. like a really bad pokemon team. the kind of team you find in a 2010s pokemon rpg maker fangame, made by a kid with a few too many parental issues and that will later turn out to have been in the closet all along but now is going through his alt right "gays are gross and i am definitely not one them" phase
Good to see you again Kappa! Hope you're doing alright. If you need more time, I know we'll all be happy to wait and give you space. Sounds like you've been through the ringer, mate. Fabulous video, as always. Look after yourself dude x
If you ever doubt the importance of brand identity, Tumblr has managed to limp along all these years by simply never changing anything and the one time they tried, everyone hated it. The users are bizarrely attached to the cite, primarily due to a mix of nostalgia (namely the “old internet” feel), relatively lax censorship, and the fact that everyone has known each other since the mid 2000’s by now.
The only ever successful feature rollout was the introduction of buyable verification for $7, mocking Twitter, and the ability to flood people’s dashboards with crabs.
I blocked him immediately after he started showing up at the top of my following page even though i didn't follow him. If he removes the ability to block him, it better not automatically unblock him for me
I implore everyone to look more into the Halli situation (the employee he fired for his disability). Twitter bought his company and basically had a long-term payment plan through keeping him on payroll. They hadn't finished paying him by the time Elon decided to fire him, so now Elon has that to worry about on top of severance. Also the employee set it up that way so he could pay the max amounts of tax back to his country as a thank you for their healthcare system (Iceland?). Whole story is wild.
Kappa talking about why his videos are late sounds like me explaining to my literature teacher why all my essays are late
Spent the entire video waiting for the green shadow to perfectly hide behind his silhouette.
Kaiju istg your outro always scares the ever-loving crap out of me because I think it's an alarm and it sends me into a feral panic, trying to figure out what I set an alarm for, for a solid 5 seconds.
Love your vids btw. keep it up
i cant believe you forgot to mention that the real reason why musk has not removed the block feature is because it is legally required in social media apps if they want to be on app stores.
Lol "the eyes of a cornered ferret" what an iconic description
That child is the reason why people are allowed to legally change their names.
I can't believe depressed librarian Jesus is back.. at 2:35AM
Go get some sleep man, shit
Just remembered Kappa Kaiju exists while in the bus a few hours ago and now he uploads ??? Maybe i am psychic after all
I like to say that in the Chinese language, "x" is pronounced like the "sh" sound. I also like to call it "Xitter"
Kappa!! Welcome back!! Idk if you plan to but id love to see you cover Yandere Devs downfall/running away to that secret chat group.
You were the king of covering him and id love to see you talk about whats happened!
Kappa is in fact the oldest person of all time. He knew the dinosaurs by first name.
Great to see you in my sub feed regardless of how long it's been between uploads, they're always engaging and honestly calming either way (I have anxiety and hearing you explain things in a casual and non-loud tone makes me actually retain the info lol) Hope you've been doing well, take care of yourself :^)
I had to pay my electric bill, and I normally just use the paper bill and call the automated system. While I was going through all that, I idly looked at the bill and saw all the usual “visit our website! Follow us on social media!” stuff and there were 2 QR codes. The left was Facebook and the right just said X. My first thought was “what? Is the QR code out of order?” And i stared at it for a sec before i was like “…Oh they mean twitter.”
When I see the letter X, the first thing I think is crossed out or NO
Musk's obsession with the letter x is so bizarre, coming from someone that had x-s in a lot of my usernames as a teenager. You'd think he'd outgrow the edginess by now but I suppose if you constantly surround yourself with yes-men, you never really outgrow some things.
I like your funny words library man
Elon getting rid of the Block feature… I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the App Store won’t let you put a social media app up unless you have the Block feature. If he goes through with it, Apple could remove the Twitter app from their storefront. And to think Elon’s actually trying to *make* money 😂
Oh hell yeah, the once a decade kappa Kaiju upload, in so excited
By the way the man who was fired and then Elon mocked for having a disability is also someone who chose to work for Twitter when he sold his company to them instead of just taking a single lump sum of cash because he would pay more taxes on a salary and he wants to help make his home country of Iceland better for other people with disabilities. His employment contract makes it clear that if he is ever terminated he is to get all of the money he is owed as a severance bonus. As a result his name is basically at the top of a "Do Not Fire" list. This is why HR was giving him the run around because he had been fired and they didn't want to tell him because then he would be owed several million dollars. This is part of the reason why Musk had to publicly apologize on top of you know, the defamation lawsuit.
I never mind how long it takes between uploads because when you finally do, every other sentence that comes out of your mouth causes me immense psychic damage and I love it.
Money really does melt your brain in a very special way
Fun fact: Elon admitted he bought twitter during a manic episode
You mean his base status?
does he ever stop having these episodes
Crap, I kinda feel bad for him now.
So I googled if Musk is bipolar and found that he sorta self-diagnosed, saying he *might* be. This doesn't mean he isn't, but he needs to be professionally diagnosed before saying that and seek treatment, bc he's making us look bad
And this caused the thousands of layoffs too… Rich “people” amirite? No sympathy. No sympathy at all.
Very fitting that i got a scam ad before this imitating musks voice and entire look using AI. Scary shit
Did anyone else get frightened by the image of Dick Cheney and almost drop their phone or knock their monitor off the desk
Buying something for way more than it’s worth is definitely genius brain high level business tactics.
The other good news about Theranos is that Henry Kissinger lost $3 million on it
The whole "oh golly look at all these bots" was total bullshit btw. He wasn't shocked by that. He was trying to get out of an extremely stupid move he had already done. He is a lying liar who lies.
HEY MAN..... DONT LOOK NOW BUT THERE APPEARS TO BE A LIME GREEN GUY BEHIND YOU COPYING YOUR EVERY MOVE.... STAY SAFE..
GLAD TO HAVE YOU BACK!! I'm excited to see all you do ❤
The breaking point for me leaving the site was getting notifications about tweets from accounts I didn’t follow. I can’t imagine still being active on the site today
The addiction to silly straws jokes was really good
You know it's a great day when Kappa Kaiju pops up in your notifications. Happy to see you again!
Don't worry about not making a video for I dont know how long. Nobody here cares. You're not part of anyone's schedule. You can just make your stuff whenever you want, it makes no difference to us.
Kappa only posts when im deep in the emotional trenches, thank you Kappa
I’m having a rough time right now too. Hope you start feeling better soon
how many billionaires does it take to screw something up
just one
Cut to me misquoting the origin of the term "hot potato" years to come
Interesting that a fake crypto scam using Elon's face was the ad I got on this video...how fitting 😅
He wants to so with X what apple did with the letter I and he is failing miserably
its fucking crazy that there are nazis roaming the platform and i just got banned for the first time after 8 years of using twitter because i expressed my hate for polyester in an unsavory way. at least it broke an almost decade long twitter addiction
He has once again returned to the mortal realm and blessed us with another video, i cant wait for the next one in 6 months :3
Damn I sure do wish we were back in the time where he was constantly being made fun of WITHOUT the endangerment of thousands of people
Being off Twitter for a few years I had forgotten how much Musk is a despicable human being, and also how much I'd missed Kappa Kaiju
Wake up gamers new Kappa Kaiju just dropped
Once people stop conflating rich with intelligent the world will be better off lol. People only think elon is smart because he's a billionaire who owns space x. What they don't seem to understand it's that it's the people elon hires that run space x, not him. He doesn't know the first thing about engineering.
and when the world needed him the most, he returned
Love the video! Glad you're past whatever was happening and have more time now. Hope you're well!
I'm sure Melon Husk is fine with everyone still calling the website "Twitter." You know, since he doesn't mind deadnaming in general.
It's amazing. Literally this morning I was wondering about Twitter and what state it's in now.
The important thing about his obsession with the letter X is that yes, he named his son X, but he also banned his daughter Exa (although I think they changed it to Y)
the 'that stranger? albert einstein' joke made me laugh out loud, so glad ur back :D
Yay the mildly disappointed and sassy librarian is back!
KAPPA'S BACK!!! i'm so relieved. i had started to memorize the script of the yanderedev video
IMO anytime someone is able to do considerable damage to twitter’s reputation I consider it a net win for society as a whole.
for a twitter history timeline, im surprised it is 18 minutes long.
I had a monk in D&D in high school named X
7:57 I *do* doubt he is intelligent based on the weight of his actions and statements presented willingly and candidly in great volume. My other possible explanations include the terms amoral, liar, charlatan, delusional, and puerile, so really I'm just being nice.
the confused librarian wooo